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Improve your Frontend Toolset with Grunt and LibSass

Learn how you can leverage Grunt and LibSass as groundwork to improve your Frontend Development process and deliver better optimized sites for clients. At NEWMEDIA we’ve been utilizing Sass and Compass compiled with Ruby for CSS Preprocessing for quite some time now in our Drupal projects. While this toolset has served us well, the toolset … Continued

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9 Tips For WordPress Junkies Transferring to Drupal

How to achieve the same goals with both Drupal and WordPress: 9 Tips for Former WordPress Junkies Although there have been many blog posts making comparisons between Drupal and WordPress, the two most popular open-source content management systems, there is seldom mention of a comparison of the tools we as clients, developers, designers, business analysts, … Continued

Drush Make: Evaluating the Benefits and Pain Points of Each Approach

Drush Make: Evaluating the Benefits and Pain Points of Each Approach

Drush make is a popular solution for Drupal developers wishing to represent an entire application codebase in a single make file (or collection of make files), but does it always make sense to use? And is it a one size fits all solution? This article reviews several advantages and disadvantages of the more common approaches … Continued

NEWMEDIA is Ranked the #1 Web Designer in Denver by Clutch

We understand what it takes to build a website that converts for your business using advanced UX design concepts and SEO ranking techniques. Our 20+ year track record in an ever-shifting and evolving marketplace helps us recognize unforeseen business opportunities while simultaneously delivering unprecedented results. Because of that, we’ve been ranked as the #1 web designer in … Continued

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Avoiding the “API Integration Blues” on a Drupal Project

As Drupal continues to mature as a platform and gain adoption in the enterprise space, integration with one or more 3rd party systems is becoming common for medium to large scale projects. Unfortunately, it can be easy to underestimate the time and effort required to make these integrations work seamlessly. Here are lessons we’ve learned… … Continued

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Google “Fred” Update Shakes up SEO but Does it Even Matter?

The SEO world was set aflame on March 9th, 2017 when webmasters everywhere reported sharp drops in their traffic and keyword rankings. This update was nicknamed “Fred” but was it really even that big of a deal? There was a massive Google update in early March nicknamed “Fred” but does it really even matter?

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NEWMEDIA: 2016 Year in Review

2016 was a year of many milestones and accomplishments for NEWMEDIA and our sister brands, DRUD, RiotLabs and 1FEE. NEWMEDIA proudly celebrated its 20-year anniversary and continues to expand and strengthen its position as a top-tier interactive agency. We work with companies across the country and around the globe (34 U.S. states and 5 continents), … Continued

NEWMEDIA’s Site Development Process (SDP)

At NEWMEDIA we have spent a great deal of time perfecting our site development process. Through many trials and errors we have converged on a SDP that works for us. When working in a team or in an environment where your code and systems are going to be used by people other than yourself, it … Continued

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Details matter in business and in trail work

We were happy to jump in when a non-profit educational group reached out to NEWMEDIA asking for our help. Shore up some badly eroded biking trails? Sure thing! A majority of our team lives an active, healthy lifestyle with several members game to thrash any mountain trail ride. Besides, who can say no to a … Continued